The invention provides a playing content management and control method and device, which are applied to a playing device. The method comprises: detecting whether mobile storage is inserted into the playing device or not; when the mobile storage is inserted into the playing device, judging whether the mobile storage includes an appointed file or not; when the mobile storage includes the appointed file, copying the appointed file into the playing device; establishing a new playing list according to the appointed file copied into the playing device. With the adoption of the method provided by the invention, the problem that the working efficiency of manual operating is low is solved.